Impact On 1960's Sports

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The Impact on 1960’s Sports
The 1960’s was a very important time. It has affected music, art, fashion, and other things. People also helped change history in that time. Music, art and fashion were important to that time but so was sports. History in the 1960’s has affected sports.
In the 1960’s Neil Armstrong walked the moon in 1969, Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in 1968, and the first NFL Super bowl was played in 1967. Kings assignation devastated people. On April 4th King was shot from the building across the street from him and died almost instantly (Great Events; The Twentieth Century 853). Neil Armstrong’s courageous walk on the moon changed history forever on July 21 (American in the 1950s and 1960s 9). The world’s first NFL Super

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